Ali Jameel

Ali Jameel (@ajmeel91) is a Yemen-based human rights defender. He currently serves as Accountability and Redress Director at Mwatana for Human Rights, a prominent Yemen-based human rights organization. He has led investigations at Mwatana on a wide range of issues, including civilian harm caused by the Saudi/UAE-led Coalition air campaign, the use of Western weapons in the Saudi/UAE-led Coalition attacks, torture and other detention-related abuse at unofficial detention facilities across Yemen, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war by parties to the ongoing conflict. He also led the Mwatana research that resulted in a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC. Previously, he was a fellow with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.